BlockDeertail Indian Village, Montana
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Fort Peck Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59255. It lies near White Shield Island. The Survey maps it on the Sprole quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1912 USGS Poplar quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wolf Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Sprole quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
235 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Deertail Indian Village (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,418 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 36 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 59 |
| Smoking | 45 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Fort Peck Agency | DUPREE |
| 8 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Peck Agency | 3MIERT1 |
| 8 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Fort Peck Agency | DUPREE |
| 7 September 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Fort Peck Agency | 3MIEINDHWY |
| 6 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.1 acres | Fort Peck Agency | BIRD |
| 6 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Peck Agency | 2MIERT1 |
| 4 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.5 acres | Fort Peck Agency | BLACK |
| 4 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Fort Peck Agency | MURPHVILLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1669334. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.